Re: [Wikimediauk-l] So who knows about their local wifi?

2012-05-01 Thread geni
On 30 April 2012 22:56, Roger Bamkin roger.bam...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
 Hi guys,

 I'm interested in wifis. We have some concerns about the legalities of
 allowing anonymous users to use a free wifi system without giving their
 email addresses or agreeing to terms and conditions. Can't tell you where -
 but you might guess

 Does anyone...

 Know what the legal position is and any important guidelines that may apply?

Computer Misuse Act 1990 and the ISP's terms of service are the most obvious.



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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] So who knows about their local wifi?

2012-05-01 Thread Thomas Morton
On 1 May 2012 10:06, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote:

 On 30 April 2012 22:56, Roger Bamkin roger.bam...@wikimedia.org.uk
 wrote:
  Hi guys,
 
  I'm interested in wifis. We have some concerns about the legalities of
  allowing anonymous users to use a free wifi system without giving their
  email addresses or agreeing to terms and conditions. Can't tell you
 where -
  but you might guess
 
  Does anyone...
 
  Know what the legal position is and any important guidelines that may
 apply?

 Computer Misuse Act 1990 and the ISP's terms of service are the most
 obvious.


Talk to a lawyer, that's the best advice.

The misuse of open access points is not well tried in law - but you are
certainly responsible for its use. You may also be required to log certain
information about the users (which I believe is the main reason most ask
for an email address).

And as Geni mentions, sometimes the ISP you are using mandates certain
things - such as protected Wifi. So you need to review that carefully.

More than anything it depends on the context; if you are talking about a
small endeavour at, say, a meeting venue you're probably alright using an
ad-hoc setup. But if you are talking an entirely public network then things
are more complex.

To be honest; once you are at that level you should be talking to a
professional company anyway, as supplying Wifi of that sort is a
non-trivial technical exercise. And they will know exactly what is required.

But; ask someone with relevant legal expertise.

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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] So who knows about their local wifi?

2012-05-01 Thread David Gerard
On 1 May 2012 10:35, Thomas Morton morton.tho...@googlemail.com wrote:

 More than anything it depends on the context; if you are talking about a
 small endeavour at, say, a meeting venue you're probably alright using an
 ad-hoc setup. But if you are talking an entirely public network then things
 are more complex.
 To be honest; once you are at that level you should be talking to a
 professional company anyway, as supplying Wifi of that sort is a non-trivial
 technical exercise. And they will know exactly what is required.


I note also the Hack Day Manifesto (really a how-to), which goes into
quite some detail on the technical side (though not the legal one):

http://hackdaymanifesto.com/


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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] So who knows about their local wifi?

2012-05-01 Thread Tom Morris
On 1 May 2012 11:04, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
 On 1 May 2012 10:35, Thomas Morton morton.tho...@googlemail.com wrote:

 More than anything it depends on the context; if you are talking about a
 small endeavour at, say, a meeting venue you're probably alright using an
 ad-hoc setup. But if you are talking an entirely public network then things
 are more complex.
 To be honest; once you are at that level you should be talking to a
 professional company anyway, as supplying Wifi of that sort is a non-trivial
 technical exercise. And they will know exactly what is required.


 I note also the Hack Day Manifesto (really a how-to), which goes into
 quite some detail on the technical side (though not the legal one):

 http://hackdaymanifesto.com/


As one of the Hack Day Manifesto drafting cabal, I'll note why we didn't...

Firstly, because we aren't lawyers. If you are a lawyer, the Hack Day
Manifesto is on Github, and, as we say on Wikipedia, anyone can
edit.

Secondly, because what we do know about the law on wifi, it's actually
very difficult to know what is required. When the Digital Economy Act
was up for debate, one of the provisions, if I recall correctly, would
require closing of open wifi following repeated copyright infringement
complaints, but whether that is going to be required is something I
believe we are still waiting upon from the official Ofcom guidance
(not to go political, but having a law where you basically pass it
without reading it, then have someone else work out exactly what it
means is a hermeneutic strategy that should make postmodernists very
happy and anyone who values transparency and deliberation not so
happy).

There are still some very strange questions about whether or not using
a weak protection system for wifi would count - WEP is now trivially
crackable, and WPA rather than WPA2 is also trivial to crack...
requiring WPA2 means certain older devices can't connect to wifi.

It'd certainly be useful for everybody involved if we could have some
lawyers work out exactly what the current civil and criminal penalties
and issues of concern are around open wifi usage.

I say that as someone who lives right out in the countryside and,
partly on principle, keeps his wifi completely open. Why? Because I
believe that if you should be unfortunate enough to find yourself
standing outside my house, the least you should be able to do is check
Google Maps to find your way to where you are going. Given that we
have really bad GPS reception, almost no mobile reception, certainly
no 3G reception, I see almost no benefit in preventing people from
leeching a little bandwidth from me... on the basis that if I were
momentarily outside their house, I'd really like to be able to do
likewise. Share and share alike, be the change you want to see and all
that.

Security expert Bruce Schneier does similarly:
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/01/my_open_wireles.html

Of course, if some bastard tracks me down, camps outside my house and
uses my wifi to upload his kiddy porn stash, nuclear bomb construction
instructions or the contents of their 'Lady Gaga' CD-RW to Wikileaks,
and I end up in jail, that would suck quite considerably. Hence why
having some guidance from actual lawyers would be quite useful.

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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] So who knows about their local wifi?

2012-05-01 Thread David Gerard
On 1 May 2012 11:24, Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org wrote:
 On 1 May 2012 11:04, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:

 I note also the Hack Day Manifesto (really a how-to), which goes into
 quite some detail on the technical side (though not the legal one):
 http://hackdaymanifesto.com/

 As one of the Hack Day Manifesto drafting cabal, I'll note why we didn't...
[snip sensible stuff]


The key takeaway I got is talk to your ISP.

In practical terms, I expect a one-day event of a defined nature done
by nice people of social standing (e.g. WMUK) should be able to get
away with quite a lot, even if a miscreant might happen to be hanging
around outside just near enough to get reception and violate
copyright. Even if record companies would prefer everyone, including
educational charities, to regard the internet with fear and loathing.


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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK communications review - Wiki page created for input

2012-05-01 Thread Stevie Benton

Hello again,

Just a reminder of the below. Please do take a look and share your 
thoughts on the article and discussion page at 
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/2012_communications_review


Many thanks,

Stevie

On 23/04/2012 14:59, Stevie Benton wrote:

Hello everyone,

There's a need for a thorough review of Wikimedia UK's communications. 
To this end I've created a page on the UK Wiki - 
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/2012_communications_review - as a 
starting point for suggestions, comments, ideas, feedback and so on. 
Please do get involved as it's really important that everyone who 
wishes to input into this process has the chance to do so.


I've made some preliminary suggestions and comments to get us started 
but do, please, comment or amend as you see fit. If you think 
something is worth further debate, please use the discussion page.


Thank you in advance for all of your help,

Stevie




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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] So who knows about their local wifi?

2012-05-01 Thread brian.mcneil
Forgive the scathing cynicism, but we're governed by retards who I
wouldn't trust to change a 13-amp fuse! Let alone actually realise that
99% of household equipment could get by with a 1-amp, or less, fuse.

I _know_ my local WiFi ;-) (SSID: xx, Key: not telling).

I also know that WEP is so trivially broken that, pardon the pun,
there's an app for that. WPA is not a great deal better. I've broken a
couple just to prove the point. If you're planning to run an open point,
do it and be damned. If this is a 'public service', and some media mogul
tries to sue you then half the country would chip in to a legal fighting
fund.

Sadly, Wikimedia UK has to be 'polite' to politicians; I suspect David
Gerard would gleefully join me in setting about them with a
clue-by-four, and tell them, bluntly, to defer to the likes of Sir Tim
Berners-Lee on what is good for the Internet.

The Digital Economy Act should be overturned. The Limp-Dems promised to
do so - until they ended up in a coalition with Cameron. Now, I'm
dealing with repeated alarmist emails from 38 Degrees about plans to
grant the police and security services carte blanche snooping powers.
I could say I told you so, and you could search for INDECT on
Wikinews.

I, very infrequently, chip in on this list; and, the above is 'quite a
rant'. However, I'm of the opinion that WM-UK should be an active
advocate for a free and unfettered Internet. Thankfully my own hacking
exploits predate the Computer Misuse Act. But, when I'm back online at
home, I'll be joining the mayhem in running a Tor node, and whoever in
the police told Cameron they'd like more powers can explain how they
can't crack real encryption.



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  Original Message 
 Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] So who knows about their local wifi?
 From: Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org
 Date: Tue, May 01, 2012 11:24 am
 To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org
 
 
 On 1 May 2012 11:04, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
  On 1 May 2012 10:35, Thomas Morton morton.tho...@googlemail.com wrote:
 
  More than anything it depends on the context; if you are talking about a
  small endeavour at, say, a meeting venue you're probably alright using an
  ad-hoc setup. But if you are talking an entirely public network then things
  are more complex.
  To be honest; once you are at that level you should be talking to a
  professional company anyway, as supplying Wifi of that sort is a 
  non-trivial
  technical exercise. And they will know exactly what is required.
 
 
  I note also the Hack Day Manifesto (really a how-to), which goes into
  quite some detail on the technical side (though not the legal one):
 
  http://hackdaymanifesto.com/
 
 
 As one of the Hack Day Manifesto drafting cabal, I'll note why we didn't...
 
 Firstly, because we aren't lawyers. If you are a lawyer, the Hack Day
 Manifesto is on Github, and, as we say on Wikipedia, anyone can
 edit.
 
 Secondly, because what we do know about the law on wifi, it's actually
 very difficult to know what is required. When the Digital Economy Act
 was up for debate, one of the provisions, if I recall correctly, would
 require closing of open wifi following repeated copyright infringement
 complaints, but whether that is going to be required is something I
 believe we are still waiting upon from the official Ofcom guidance
 (not to go political, but having a law where you basically pass it
 without reading it, then have someone else work out exactly what it
 means is a hermeneutic strategy that should make postmodernists very
 happy and anyone who values transparency and deliberation not so
 happy).
 
 There are still some very strange questions about whether or not using
 a weak protection system for wifi would count - WEP is now trivially
 crackable, and WPA rather than WPA2 is also trivial to crack...
 requiring WPA2 means certain older devices can't connect to wifi.
 
 It'd certainly be useful for everybody involved if we could have some
 lawyers work out exactly what the current civil and criminal penalties
 and issues of concern are around open wifi usage.
 
 I say that as someone who lives right out in the countryside and,
 partly on principle, keeps his wifi completely open. Why? Because I
 believe that if you should be unfortunate enough to find yourself
 standing outside my house, the least you should be able to do is check
 Google Maps to find your way to where you are going. Given that we
 have really bad GPS reception, almost no mobile reception, certainly
 no 3G reception, I see almost no benefit in preventing people from
 leeching a little bandwidth from me... on the basis that if I were
 momentarily outside their house, I'd really like to be able to do
 likewise. Share and share alike, be the change you want to see and all
 that.
 
 Security expert Bruce Schneier does similarly:
 

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [WMUK Office] Wikimedia UK communications review - Wiki page created for input

2012-05-01 Thread Richard Symonds
To expand on this a little: this review will affect how we talk to the UK
list, our members, the general UK Wikimedia community, etc. It's vitally
important that everyone puts their views on here: how could we communicate
better?

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On 1 May 2012 12:15, Stevie Benton stevie.ben...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:

 Hello again,

 Just a reminder of the below. Please do take a look and share your
 thoughts on the article and discussion page at
 http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/**2012_communications_reviewhttp://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/2012_communications_review

 Many thanks,

 Stevie


 On 23/04/2012 14:59, Stevie Benton wrote:

 Hello everyone,

 There's a need for a thorough review of Wikimedia UK's communications. To
 this end I've created a page on the UK Wiki -
 http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/**2012_communications_reviewhttp://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/2012_communications_review-
  as a starting point for suggestions, comments, ideas, feedback and so on.
 Please do get involved as it's really important that everyone who wishes to
 input into this process has the chance to do so.

 I've made some preliminary suggestions and comments to get us started but
 do, please, comment or amend as you see fit. If you think something is
 worth further debate, please use the discussion page.

 Thank you in advance for all of your help,

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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] So who knows about their local wifi?

2012-05-01 Thread Roger Bamkin
You have again exceed my expectations. I knew this was a tricky area and
you have mapped it's boundaries and key features. Same as  I would have got
from three trips to a lawyer . THX
On May 1, 2012 2:10 PM, brian.mcn...@wikinewsie.org wrote:

 Forgive the scathing cynicism, but we're governed by retards who I
 wouldn't trust to change a 13-amp fuse! Let alone actually realise that
 99% of household equipment could get by with a 1-amp, or less, fuse.

 I _know_ my local WiFi ;-) (SSID: xx, Key: not telling).

 I also know that WEP is so trivially broken that, pardon the pun,
 there's an app for that. WPA is not a great deal better. I've broken a
 couple just to prove the point. If you're planning to run an open point,
 do it and be damned. If this is a 'public service', and some media mogul
 tries to sue you then half the country would chip in to a legal fighting
 fund.

 Sadly, Wikimedia UK has to be 'polite' to politicians; I suspect David
 Gerard would gleefully join me in setting about them with a
 clue-by-four, and tell them, bluntly, to defer to the likes of Sir Tim
 Berners-Lee on what is good for the Internet.

 The Digital Economy Act should be overturned. The Limp-Dems promised to
 do so - until they ended up in a coalition with Cameron. Now, I'm
 dealing with repeated alarmist emails from 38 Degrees about plans to
 grant the police and security services carte blanche snooping powers.
 I could say I told you so, and you could search for INDECT on
 Wikinews.

 I, very infrequently, chip in on this list; and, the above is 'quite a
 rant'. However, I'm of the opinion that WM-UK should be an active
 advocate for a free and unfettered Internet. Thankfully my own hacking
 exploits predate the Computer Misuse Act. But, when I'm back online at
 home, I'll be joining the mayhem in running a Tor node, and whoever in
 the police told Cameron they'd like more powers can explain how they
 can't crack real encryption.



 Brian McNeil
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   Original Message 
  Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] So who knows about their local wifi?
  From: Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org
  Date: Tue, May 01, 2012 11:24 am
  To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org
 
 
  On 1 May 2012 11:04, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
   On 1 May 2012 10:35, Thomas Morton morton.tho...@googlemail.com
 wrote:
  
   More than anything it depends on the context; if you are talking
 about a
   small endeavour at, say, a meeting venue you're probably alright
 using an
   ad-hoc setup. But if you are talking an entirely public network then
 things
   are more complex.
   To be honest; once you are at that level you should be talking to a
   professional company anyway, as supplying Wifi of that sort is a
 non-trivial
   technical exercise. And they will know exactly what is required.
  
  
   I note also the Hack Day Manifesto (really a how-to), which goes into
   quite some detail on the technical side (though not the legal one):
  
   http://hackdaymanifesto.com/
  
 
  As one of the Hack Day Manifesto drafting cabal, I'll note why we
 didn't...
 
  Firstly, because we aren't lawyers. If you are a lawyer, the Hack Day
  Manifesto is on Github, and, as we say on Wikipedia, anyone can
  edit.
 
  Secondly, because what we do know about the law on wifi, it's actually
  very difficult to know what is required. When the Digital Economy Act
  was up for debate, one of the provisions, if I recall correctly, would
  require closing of open wifi following repeated copyright infringement
  complaints, but whether that is going to be required is something I
  believe we are still waiting upon from the official Ofcom guidance
  (not to go political, but having a law where you basically pass it
  without reading it, then have someone else work out exactly what it
  means is a hermeneutic strategy that should make postmodernists very
  happy and anyone who values transparency and deliberation not so
  happy).
 
  There are still some very strange questions about whether or not using
  a weak protection system for wifi would count - WEP is now trivially
  crackable, and WPA rather than WPA2 is also trivial to crack...
  requiring WPA2 means certain older devices can't connect to wifi.
 
  It'd certainly be useful for everybody involved if we could have some
  lawyers work out exactly what the current civil and criminal penalties
  and issues of concern are around open wifi usage.
 
  I say that as someone who lives right out in the countryside and,
  partly on principle, keeps his wifi completely open. Why? Because I
  believe that if you should be unfortunate enough to find yourself
  standing outside my house, the least you should be able to do is check
  Google Maps to find your way to where you are going. Given that we
  have really bad GPS reception, almost no mobile reception, certainly
  no 3G reception, I 

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Olympic mascots on Commons

2012-05-01 Thread Richard Symonds
OGL? Is it?


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On 1 May 2012 16:30, Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org wrote:

 I proudly present, those ghastly Olympics mascots, now available on
Wikimedia Commons:

 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Olympic_mascots.jpg

 I shall now await being sued by Lord Coe and the LOGOC and/or a massive
deletion debate on Commons.

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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Olympic mascots on Commons

2012-05-01 Thread Richard Symonds
Perhaps I should rephrase my previous nonsensical reply:

Is this really OGL? I suppose it is, but the Flickr account seems to think
it's non-commercial...

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On 1 May 2012 16:30, Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org wrote:

 I proudly present, those ghastly Olympics mascots, now available on
 Wikimedia Commons:

 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Olympic_mascots.jpg

 I shall now await being sued by Lord Coe and the LOGOC and/or a massive
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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Olympic mascots on Commons

2012-05-01 Thread Tom Morris
On Tuesday, 1 May 2012 at 16:45, Richard Symonds wrote:

 Perhaps I should rephrase my previous nonsensical reply:
 
 Is this really OGL? I suppose it is, but the Flickr account seems to think 
 it's non-commercial...

Yes. It's published by the DCMS, and according to their website, it's Crown 
Copyright, and thus under the terms of the PSI Framework, is OGL.

http://www.dcms.gov.uk/copyright.aspx
http://www.dcms.gov.uk/7085.aspx#Flickr_policy

There's no indication on the Flickr page that it is owned by anyone other than 
the DCMS, and thus we have good reason to believe it's covered by the OGL. 
There is an existing license on the Flickr images, and reusers are free to 
reuse it under CC BY-NC-ND if they feel so inclined. But we've had other OGL 
images from other government departments that are also licensed on Flickr as 
some variant of CC that's not Commons compatible.

The DCMS are aware though, through Twitter and email. As are James Forrester 
and various other people who grok OGL.

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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Olympic mascots on Commons

2012-05-01 Thread Richard Symonds
Fantastic Tom! 10/10. I withdraw my earlier nonsensical question.

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On 1 May 2012 16:51, Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org wrote:

 On Tuesday, 1 May 2012 at 16:45, Richard Symonds wrote:

  Perhaps I should rephrase my previous nonsensical reply:
 
  Is this really OGL? I suppose it is, but the Flickr account seems to
 think it's non-commercial...

 Yes. It's published by the DCMS, and according to their website, it's
 Crown Copyright, and thus under the terms of the PSI Framework, is OGL.

 http://www.dcms.gov.uk/copyright.aspx
 http://www.dcms.gov.uk/7085.aspx#Flickr_policy

 There's no indication on the Flickr page that it is owned by anyone other
 than the DCMS, and thus we have good reason to believe it's covered by the
 OGL. There is an existing license on the Flickr images, and reusers are
 free to reuse it under CC BY-NC-ND if they feel so inclined. But we've had
 other OGL images from other government departments that are also licensed
 on Flickr as some variant of CC that's not Commons compatible.

 The DCMS are aware though, through Twitter and email. As are James
 Forrester and various other people who grok OGL.

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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Olympic mascots on Commons

2012-05-01 Thread Chris Keating
I imagine the mascots are trademarks, and that the OGL doesn't release the
trademarks as well or does it?

Chris

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Richard Symonds 
richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:

 Fantastic Tom! 10/10. I withdraw my earlier nonsensical question.

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 On 1 May 2012 16:51, Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org wrote:

 On Tuesday, 1 May 2012 at 16:45, Richard Symonds wrote:

  Perhaps I should rephrase my previous nonsensical reply:
 
  Is this really OGL? I suppose it is, but the Flickr account seems to
 think it's non-commercial...

 Yes. It's published by the DCMS, and according to their website, it's
 Crown Copyright, and thus under the terms of the PSI Framework, is OGL.

 http://www.dcms.gov.uk/copyright.aspx
 http://www.dcms.gov.uk/7085.aspx#Flickr_policy

 There's no indication on the Flickr page that it is owned by anyone other
 than the DCMS, and thus we have good reason to believe it's covered by the
 OGL. There is an existing license on the Flickr images, and reusers are
 free to reuse it under CC BY-NC-ND if they feel so inclined. But we've had
 other OGL images from other government departments that are also licensed
 on Flickr as some variant of CC that's not Commons compatible.

 The DCMS are aware though, through Twitter and email. As are James
 Forrester and various other people who grok OGL.

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